AuthorTopic: Informal Portraiture is not Street (Read 836 times)

I used to see this guy on the streets of Colorado Springs. One late evening in 2001 as I walked by him he said, "Take my picture." So I took his picture. The light was failing and I was shooting with an Olympus 3040Z, which was a good point-and-shoot in its day, but not quite adequate for this. He said, "I didn't see no flash," which illustrates an advantage a reasonably sensitive digital had for street photography in those days. I made him a small print and gave it to him the next time I saw him. A couple years later I saw him in the bus station. He was very blind and being steered around by a friend. Evidently he'd been drinking methanol.

Good story although sad. Addiction is so destructive. But I like the shot. I think I even get the genre.

This guy was looking particularly stylish one morning and I asked to get a photo on my way to the office. I don't normally do that but it just struck me that he looked like an interesting character in a movie. It was a little snowy out but we were under an awning so it was like a big softbox shining in from the street. I think he is a real cowboy but was on his way to a date or something. No sad cowboy story to go with him that I know.